It may drop the temps a bit but honestly the H50 is a sub-par liquid cooling solution for overclocking in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, its better than air cooling solutions but no where near a custom built liquid cooling solution or an H100

My c2d6300 machine that I have been trying to get crunching for awhile... I tried again last night. I put the system together and... the cpu started smoking and so did the plug powered into the cpu 4pin. I can't pull the 4 pin out of the cpu plug. I think the psu died. It is still in warrenty too. Corsair c600.

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Corsair will be replacing the cpu. It was only 4 months old. It was cheap but still shouldn't do that. This is why we buy nice psu's though.

So I dug out the melted plastic out of the cpu's 4 pin area. This way I can plug in a known working power supply. Fans and lights turn on but I get no video and the system as a whole is dead. Now which parts are working and are not I do not know. Memory is easy to test. I suspect the motherboard is dead but I don't know for sure. It was the cpu 4 pin power connector that got hot and was melted into the socket. It could very well be the cpu that is dead; it is probably both.

Well 3.8Ghz locked up during the middle of the night. Its still getting too hot after about an hour or two of crunching. I have set it back to defaults for now so I can atleast get some numbers in while I figure out a different cooling solution.

The i7 has been running bionic all night at stock clocks and no lock ups but temps are well into the 70's so no wonder OCed it was getting too hot. I ordered H50 mounting hardware from corsair so once it arrives I will take the I7 back down and see if that will tame this CPU down some. I need to dig in my closet to find some better fans that will move some push/pull air through this H50.

MAN its good to be back putting up points for the team and its all due to the wonderful people here at TPU!!

The i7 has been running bionic all night at stock clocks and no lock ups but temps are well into the 70's so no wonder OCed it was getting too hot. I ordered H50 mounting hardware from corsair so once it arrives I will take the I7 back down and see if that will tame this CPU down some. I need to dig in my closet to find some better fans that will move some push/pull air through this H50.

MAN its good to be back putting up points for the team and its all due to the wonderful people here at TPU!!

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That's pretty hot! My 930 runs 52-56C with a mild overclock (3.2Ghz) using a Phanteks cooler..... guessing I could clock it up a lot higher based on your temps

I've got a strange issue with the FX-8320 in my main computer for a month now.
Each time I boot it, the CPU gets stuck at x7 clock multiplier (which is 1.4GHz w/ stock HT clock). It stays at that clock regardless of load. After some time it unstucks and then runs fine. With each new boot it takes a bit more time to unstuck.
But after I shot down my computer to install the GF GTX 770, I ran it for over half an hour without it coming unstuck instead of the expected ~ ten minutes. I thought it was due to upgrading my kernel so I booted into Windows. The problem was there too! I then booted to an older kernel where it worked fine before and BAM! that same problem.
I cleared my CMOS and booted with default / stock BIOS/UEFI settings to see if that fixes it. Nope. Problem still there.

No idea if it's a problem with the mobo, the CPU or [insert something here], but I sure don't like it one bit.
At this point it takes nearly an hour to unstuck. And if this keeps up the time needed to unstuck it will grow to unmanageable lengths.

I am just stumped as there is no reason for this to happen and I can't figure out what and why is wrong.
As soon as I get a free day I am going to swap my CPUs and see if the problem goes away.

*sigh* I had many HW problems over the years, many of which were much more severe. Yet this problem makes me feel so utterly hopeless and helpless it just makes me wanna cry...

bench...mark? i do leave mark on bench sometime, to remember which one is the most comfortable. :o

i found a Intel DX79TO (Skulltrail? skt 2011) at a nice price still didnt decided now ... if the board is cheap the same is incompatible for the cpu xD wether it be a I7 or a Xeon still for a cruncher it might be a nice start (keeping the board dusting in a box till i get a cpu ) there is also a DX79SR but knowing the "freak out" syndrome of bidder when it come to intel platform i rather not get my hope high, since the direct buy price is way higher than the TO... or i might get a 8350 for the same price of the TO and use it instead of messing my wallet more than necessary

the SR
and the TO
i dont specially like intel but its the 1st time i see mobo from them who look nice

i think im off to intel spec site to see whats the difference between them xD

..and I have a question. I have errors in my log saying "Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 requires 63.48 KB/sec download bandwidth. Your computer has been measured at 22.57 KB/sec"
Now, the internet connection at work is consistently 60-80 Mbps (7.5 MB/sec to 10 MB/sec), but it is reported to only manage.. 52.90 Kb/sec download. I understand that it depends on the server too, but if a 60+ Mbps connection can't reach a download speed high enough to get a CEP WU, who can?

long story short - I have noticed a while ago that it uses a horribly unreliable way to measure network speed. So You just got unlucky... for now.
It's very possible for it to detect several tens of megs per second at one time and then detect just a few kb/s some other time. So just give it some time ;]

Sweet. I am going to be that to my i7 this weekend to see how much of a difference there will be in ppd. That rig doesn't need windows anyways as it is a dedicated cruncher.

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My 930 rig is already on Linux so you can use it to gauge performance for yours- looks like I can get about 10% more output at 10% less speed... we're using nearly the same board and the same amount of ram

..and I have a question. I have errors in my log saying "Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 requires 63.48 KB/sec download bandwidth. Your computer has been measured at 22.57 KB/sec"
Now, the internet connection at work is consistently 60-80 Mbps (7.5 MB/sec to 10 MB/sec), but it is reported to only manage.. 52.90 Kb/sec download. I understand that it depends on the server too, but if a 60+ Mbps connection can't reach a download speed high enough to get a CEP WU, who can?

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I'm running them on a borrowed wifi connection for two of my rigs that can take over an hour to upload CEP2 wu (15 minutes on a good day) and I don't get those errors?

Upload speeds are in the 10-50Kbps... download speeds are similar edit- BOINC claims I'm getting download speeds of 150Kbs but I find that hard to believe!

So I think I have significantly increased the ppd/watt of my phenom rig. First of all, running Linux to increase efficiency. I went back to stock clocks and downvolted because overclocking does not seem to give much gain with 500mhz more. I also am running the system with out a gpu. Total system power usage is now 145w at full load. It is a pain though if I wanted to change something. I have to turn it off, install gpu, turn back on.

Edit: And I bought a relatively fast usb3.0 32gb drive to soon reinstall Linux on to.

Pretty much what I've done with my PhII system. Running at stock clocks, has a total of two low-RPM 120mm fans, a single HDD, no GPU, and Linux. No idea what the power consumption is, but cutting out everything extraneous does help I'm sure. I should probably pull the GTX470s out of the i7-2700k system--that would likely drop power usage 50w or so.

Just a quick question. I think my CPU is not putting out what its suppose to cause its been running since thursday 100% strong but I am only posting around 2,278-2,428 daily? Isnt a I7-920 suppose to put out atleast 3800 points or more?